Independent Lens Season 11 Episode 12 Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness 2009
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Who has the authority to define your identity? Considered one of the most controversial scholars of our time, Melville Herskovits — a Jewish anthropologist — challenged the norm in the 1940s when he wrote that black culture wasn’t pathological, it was African. Leading a seismic shift in the way African American culture is understood, Herskovits’s work raises ideas that still
- Released: 2010-02-02
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Stanley Tucci
- Director:
